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Friday, 5/2
6:30 PM | | Busdriver | | Regan Farquhar, better known as Busdriver has built an ironclad rep for being a chop-maestro and style monster. In a genre where the fans herald groups for either their artsy pretensions, or risk free plain song, he manages the balance while acting as a torch bearer for the early '90's Los Angeles underground hip-hop scene.
On the tenuous fringes of what can be deemed "rap" there lies the reviled LA maverick, who for years has been wowing unsuspecting audiences with his patented visceral onslaught of rants, rhyming and displaced musical sensibility. Whether sitting-in with such unlikely cohorts as Islands, Daedelus, Z-Trip, TTC, Boom-Bip, 2mex etc., or plowing through his enthralling solo sets, there is a distinct brand of showmanship employed by Busdriver and at least a handful of concert-goers who are maladjusted enough to submit to the sheer unadulterated thrill of it all.
Busdriver
(Boundary pushing mind-blowing fast rap from LA)
w/ Therm and Soul
(Local soul filled hip hop)
FREE and open to the public. Come enjoy the evening of CMU's last day of classes. | More... | | | Sunday, 4/20
8 PM | | Amon Tobin | | AMON TOBIN
(Swanky Bricolage Beatsmith on Ninja Tune Records)
with
XANOPTICON
(Globe-trotting Break-core)
and
DISCUSS
(Pittsburgh Down-tempo IDM)
Montreal based Brazilian musician, DJ, and producer of distinctive sample-based music. Amon Tobin is a 'tinkerer' exploring the music that exists around him, deconstructing it and then fusing it together again appear to be his method of music making. | More... | | | Thursday, 4/17
8 PM | | The Roots | | AB CONCERTS proudly presents THE ROOTS with special guest Nouveau Riche as this spring's Carnival Concert. The concert will take place on the CFA Lawn on Thursday, April 17th, 2008 at 8 pm with "doors" opening at 7 pm (rainsite: Weigand Gym - rainsite wristbands available at the UC Info Desk on 4/2 for CMU students and on 4/14 for the public). This concert is free of charge and funded for by the CMU student activities fee. Grammy award winning hip-hop trailblazers The Roots are set for the Spring 2008 Carnival Concert at CMU on April 17th. Known for their prolific lyrics and live instrumentation, the Legendary Philadelphia crew is composed of Tariq "Black Thought" Trotter (vocals), Ahmir Thompson (drums), Kamal Gray (keyboards), Frank Knuckles (percussion), Kirk "Captain Kirk" Douglas (guitar) and Owen Biddle (bass). Garnering critical praise throughout their career, The Roots have firmly established themselves as a band with uncompromised artistic control and integrity. With Rising Down, a Def Jam Recording, the band's 10th album release and a new tour, The Roots continue to take bolder steps adding new depths and range to their repertoire. | More... | | | Sunday, 4/6
7 PM | | Folk Rock and Roll Night | | Annika Rosenvigne, Guy Russo and Nathan Zoob will be rockin the roof off of the coffeehouse. There will be guitars, music and flamethrowers...mostly just guitar and music though. Come and out and listen to good FREE performances. | More... | | | Friday, 4/4
7 PM | | Open Mic Night | | Come and watch some of your fellow CMU students show us what they have on stage! If you would like to perform contact tfitzger@andrew.cmu.edu for more info. | More... | | | Friday, 3/28
7 PM | | Open Mic Night | | Want to see and hear more of the talent we have at CMU??? Need a place to show your skills???
Come to the open mics at SKIBO!!!
These Open Mic nites serve as a place for you to express your creativity as well as gain practice performing in front of an audience. FYI: Students who truly do an outstanding performance that leave the audience craving more will be invited back for a PAID gig. So try your best and come to multiple open mics so you can really get the hang of it.
The Open Mics are held bi-weekly. Performances start at 7pm, Sign up begins at 6:45. Be promt and come prepared to rock the house.
Bring your friends to see you perform!!! Or just come to eat and see the talent we have at CMU!!! | More... | | | Wednesday, 3/26
8 PM | | Dragonzord, Hop Along, Queen Alsleis, M. Callen with Brian Brown and Austin Redwood | | Come one, come all, for an amazing night of mid-atlantic musicianship featuring: DRAGONZORD, raw songs and weird sounds from Philadelphia, HOP ALONG, QUEEN ANSLEIS, rad folk songs from Baltimore, and M.CALLEN with BRIAN BROWN and AUSTIN REDWOOD, secret project unreal mindfuck from Pittsburgh. Please come out and support some friends and strangers. Besides, it's FREE!, | More... | | | Saturday, 3/22
8 PM | | Eastern Blok: Balkan Fusion meets Jazz | | Eastern Blok fuses elements of the Balkan music with jazz of the west. A extraordinary combo of guitar, saxophone, drums, and bass. Exotic flavor in the sound not to be missed.
| More... | | | Sunday, 3/2
7 PM | | TONE w/ Knot Feeder | | Tone, who share the same label (Neurot Recordings) as famous ISIS, Om, Red Sparowes, and Neurosis, will be playing this upcoming Sunday, March 2nd, along with local Math Rock band KNOT FEEDER (with ex-members of Don Caballero & Tabula Rosa)
Tone have proven themselves to be devotees to the math and science of the guitar through five albums prior to Solidarity. At the center of each record has been a precision that was present at the band's inception, a precision that has allowed (now) eight players to chase the same thing? one massive phrase, cycle, or as is with guitars, one massive riff.
Tone now find their recordings subject to an unexpected axiom - the law of entropy. The band is moving from a more ordered to a less ordered state with every record. This is not to suggest the band has lost skill or focus, but rather that they use their knack for cacophony to cover a greater breadth, expanding the current roster to include five guitars, one bass, and two drummers.
Tone's ever widening orbit around the riff has allowed the songs on Solidarity to carry even more emotional weight than 2003's Ambient Metals (Dischord), which staked a claim to sonic territory along side those with whom Tone so often share a stage: Mono, Explosions In The Sky, Tulsa Drone, Do Make Say Think, Maserati, and godspeedyou!blackemperor.
This time around Tone capitalizes on the space provided by the doubled percussion to open the band to careful passages conversely, they allow a formidable counterweight to the enormous soaring attacks of five guitars. Solidarity expands the boundaries of Tone, whereas they once communicated a single new idea, they now communicate a new method of thought. | More... | | | Friday, 2/29
7 PM | | Jazz Guitar Duo Joe Negri & Jimmy Bruno | | Two jazz guitarist extraordinaire present a jazz concert at The Underground! Joe Negri is one of Pittsburgh's own treasures, featured on Mr.Roger's Neighborhood. Jimmy Bruno, is a hot shot guitarist in the Philly jazz scene. | More... | | | Sunday, 2/29
7 PM | | Open Mic Night | | Come and watch some of your fellow CMU students show us what they have on stage! If you would like to perform contact tfitzger@andrew.cmu.edu for more info. | More... | | | Saturday, 2/23
7 PM | | Benefit Concert for FORGE | | Join us for a benefit concert for student organization FORGE. All profit goes to fund children in poverty. Three bands will be performing: Mellow Motif, Tenessee Whiskey, and another guest TBA. | More... | | | Sunday, 2/17
7 PM | | Skibo Bonanza! | | Come see a free show featuring Anna Vogelzang, Tiger Saw and special guest Boca Chica! | More... | | | Friday, 2/15
6:45 PM | | Open Mic Night | | Come and watch some of your fellow CMU students show us what they have on stage! If you would like to perform contact tfitzger@andrew.cmu.edu for more info. | More... | | | Saturday, 2/9
8 PM | | Andy McKee Trio | | A self-trained fingerstyle guitarist and composer, McKee posted homemade videos of his tunes on YouTube last year, a move that has launched a staggeringly successful career. Since then, he has had over 20 million hits on YouTube.com, a packed touring schedule that takes him around the world, and he's made 29,000 MySpace friends. Knocking the late, great Johnny Cash out of the top spot as the highest-rated music video on the site, McKee has appeared by invitation on "Last Call with Carson Daly," is in the Top 10 on the iTunes Folk page, and is currently featured on Josh Groban's new album, Noel, on the track "Little Drummer Boy." | More... | | | Saturday, 1/26
8 PM | | Sean McMillan | | Sean, an up and coming DJ, has done numerous shows for clubs and activites on campus including Spirit and more recently the Winter Gala. Sean will be colaborating with other performers during his show at Skibo, creating interesting improvised sounds that are sure to make you "bob ya head". | More... | | | Friday, 1/25
8 PM | | Open Mic Night | | We are calling students of all levels to come and show their skills!!! We want poets, musicians, actors, actresses, comedians (basically any kind of creative performer) to come out and enrich the CMU community with thier talents. The open mic nites are bi-weekly so keep coming and support the arts here at CMU. Plus if you really rock the house, you will be invited back to play a PAID gig. If you want to perform show up by 6:45 to sign up for the night. | More... | | | Saturday, 12/1
7 PM | | Open Mic Night | | AB Skibo presents the Neville Co-op's open mic nite! Come show your support of an awesome student run organization while giving your ears something to be happy about. If you miss it, you have cause to be quite sad. But don't lament! COME INSTEAD. Performers can email tfizger@andrew.cmu.edu OR JUST SHOW UP. | More... | | | Saturday, 11/17
7 PM | | Battle of the Bands | | Come and support your friends at The Battle of the Bands and hear some good student music acts! | More... | | | Saturday, 11/10
8 pm (Doors at 7 pm) | | Broken Social Scene | | AB Concerts is proud to present Broken Social Scene for the Fall Concert 2007. Openers are TBD at this point, but that information will be released shortly! Tickets will be available at the University Center Info Desk to Carnegie Mellon ID holders on 10/22 and to the general public on 10/29. Tickets will also be available on 10/29 through ticketmaster.com | More... | | | Wednesday, 10/31
9 PM | | MSTRKRFT Halloween Costume Party | | MSTRKRFT (pronounced 'Master craft') is the project of Toronto musician
Jesse F. Keeler and studio wizard Al-P. MSTRKRFT, a shit-hot addition to
the global community of sonic warriors currently smashing down boundaries
between punk, house, hip-hop, grime, electro, and all kinds of electronic
experimentation.
MSTRKRFT is already proving this to be so. In October of 2004, the duo
recorded their first remix for release – a balls-to-the-wall rendition of
NYC band The Panthers' "Thank Me With Your Hands." An immediate underground
success even before official release (the song was first included on a
promo-only Vice magazine CD), the remix was played in dance clubs, rock
clubs, and made its way onto compilations, including Plant Music's
prestigious The Sound of Young New York + Toronto.
"We like to make the songs we remix our own," JFK explains. "I think we
approach it differently because we're not coming from a strictly dance
background, and we always ask the question 'How am I going to make this
something I would have made?' We work on everything until we're content, and
feel like we've inserted enough of ourselves to warrant having our name
attached to it."
Now, with the release of their diverse debut artist album The Looks, and its
funkin' fantastic, vocoder-heavy lead party jam "Easy Love," MSTRKRFT prove
that they can make and mix rock and dance music with equal abandon and
precision.
"I love DJing so much," enthuses JFK. "It's so emotionally rewarding to see
a room full of people dancing. That's better than any experience I've ever
had."
With two feet firmly planted in punk rock's influential past, and two in
dance music's future, MSTRKRFT are the now, wow. | More... | | | Saturday, 10/27
7 PM | | A Capella | | Join AB Underground for a performance by Carnegie Mellon's own A Capella groups The Originals and Soundbytes. | More... | | | Thursday, 10/18
8 pm | | Wolves in the Throne Room | | Hailing from deep in the country just outside of Olympia, Washington, Wolves
in the Throneroom are brothers Nathan (guitar vocals) and Aaron Weaver
(drums) and Rick Dahlin (guitar). Their debut album "Diadem of 12 Stars" was
released February, 2006 through Vendlus records. "Diadem" was recorded in
San Francisco with Tim Green at Louder Studios. It was through this
recording and the band being heavily praised within the metal underground
that caught the attention of Southern Lord who subsequently signed the band
to the label in late 2006.
The Wolves music is rooted in the traditions of Black Metal, but they
subvert the common aesthetic and ideology in order to remain true to their
own personal manifestations. Their strong convictions appropriately
compliment the confident decisive execution of their sound. This is the
sound of paradox, ambiguity and confusion, Catharsis is the objective, not a
lilly-white and guilt free existence. Death and rebirth, transformation and
enlightenment. They believe that in Black Metal, there is great truth,
transcendence and power. The groups willingness to experiment with unconventional methods of
recording and collaborate with avant-garde musicians sets them apart from
the mundane normalcy that plagues many Black Metal bands albums as of late.
This willingness to take chances and forge ahead with disregard of
convention or boundaries makes them a perfect fit on the Southern Lord
roster. The band just did a westcoast tour over the summer with label mates:
sunn 0))), earth and Weedeater and they will tour relentlessly in support of
this album.
It's surprising, of course, for an American band to thrive in what was once
considered an exclusively European thing, but when you consider the
similarity between the cold, dark winters of Scandinavia and the Pacific
Northwest's eight-month rainy season, this success doesn't seem quite so
far-fetched. Furthermore, like their predecessors, WITTR take the style's
ideals to heart: They allegedly live in the woods, grow their own food, and
endorse such radical environmental entities as the ELF (Earth Liberation
Front). | More... | | | Sunday, 10/7
7 pm | | VHS or Beta, Librarians, It's Birds | | VHS or Beta is a rock band from Louisville, Kentucky that combines elements of
French funk and dance rock. Their self-released debut, 'Le Funk', was a minor splash
in the record charts but it wasn't until 2004's "Night On Fire" that the band
achieved great success. The song is in the movie Grandma's Boy and on The OC. The
band's members are guitarists Craig Pfunder and Zeke Buck, bassist Mark Palgy, and
drummer Mark Guidry.
VHS or Beta released a new album, 'Bring on the Comets' in August of 2007.
Librarians are one of Morgantown's favorite things (internal polling puts them at #4
after "Jerry West," "Pepperoni Rolls," and "Burning Couches").
It's Birds are representing Morgantown in the second biggest way possible, these indie rockers are
supporting their first tour in support of their first release. | More... | | | Saturday, 9/29
8 pm | | Brad Yoder | | Come by The Underground for a free show by one of Pittsburgh's best artists, Brad Yoder. | More... | | | Friday, 9/21
7 pm | | Natasha Patamapongs & Kwasi Mensah | | Come down to The Underground for a free show featuring jazz vocalist Natasha Patamapongs from 7 to 8 PM and singer/songwriter Kwasi Mensah from then on. | More... | | | Tuesday, 9/18
7 pm | | Guy Russo | | Come down to The Underground for a free performance by Carnegie Mellon's own singer/songwriter Guy Russo. | More... | | |
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